antipoetic

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for antipoetic
Adjective
  • This cheerfully genre-crossing autobiographical novel is told in rhyming couplets with some prose sections interspersed.
    Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Or just a Fascist? February 22, 2025 Reading Time: 5 minutes Does a glorious prose style reflect a glorious quality in a writer’s soul?
    Paul Berman, airmail.news, 22 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • This was an obtuse and unpoetic diktat, a showy way to miss the fact that a song’s history—its use over time, by real people, inspired by the exigencies of ritual and action—can inform its meaning more than its mere lyrics ever could.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • Atlanta and its suburbs are a surprisingly Whitmanesque experiment in pluralism, in which unpoetic concrete strip malls substitute for lyrical spears of summer grass.
    Sanjena Sathian, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
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“Antipoetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antipoetic. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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